apologize to anyone I offended..if I did.

I’ll turn all anger towards Chris Duhon.

on by the indomitable Ziller: http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2010/2/3/1290875/believing-or-not-believing-in

one fanpost: http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2010/2/1/1287741/sergio-el-grande

one response post to Seth: http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2010/2/18/1316829/expert-opinions-on-sergio-rodriguez

Personally, I hope Sergio plays well enough in NY to find a permanent home.

No, we’ve always had a chance and Isiah actually had a plan. See the first chapter of Bill Simmon’s book. His plan was better than Walsh’s; it was just executed worst than the Vietnam War. Walsh has no plan. He has a concept; an idea. What team is being built? Who is at point guard? Hell, what type of point guard will run this team? Now who are the two max players and what position do they play? Who is their back-up? Who is the rest of their team? Who is the center? Do we finally play defense or do our two max players defend all five positions? How old will we be again? Where do we get our cheap labor to support the expensive labor since we lose our draft picks? Since we’re going to do so damn good in 2011, what kind of protection was that we put on those picks? Oh, we’ll use that mid-level and million dollar exemption to build the team.

The price was not only high, but this was about as dumb a strategy as a GM can muster. Some keep saying wait until the summer of 2011, but the logic is clear. I said two years ago that this is exactly where we would be if he went down this road. The numbers didn’t work then and they still don’t if you are trying to build a team.

Try it yourself. Simple math and common sense guys. You’ve got to have 13 players on your roster. By the end of this fiasco of a season, we will have 4 (including Eddie Curry and 5 if you give Sergio the qualifying offer). So we are $32 million under the cap considering the low cap holds. Do we actually have enough for 7 professionals, 1 max player and 1 almost max player not David Lee?

Unless LeBron walks through those Garden gates this was a worst joke than being laid by Layden. This is one helluva risk, even Lloyds of London AIG wouldn’t insure.

That was like, crazy. I guess there was just a lot of tension that had to be released.

we just need to view others opinions as such. there is no right or wrong.

like seth n the crew says…“im just sayin”

cheers yall.. i got a good feeling that the dreaded years are behind us

Patrick. The greatest picture ever: my cell phone background/my desktop wallpaper

Good words, though I submit that one of the funnest things about the Internet is maligning complete strangers under the cloak of anonymity.

I just don’t understand what makes people so sure that this team will be so much better in 2010-11. This is all or nothing. They will be very good to great for the next few years, or they will be terrible for a very long time. I’m just really hesitant to celebrate anything too quickly. It’s hard enough to land one superstar FA, let alone two.

Here’s hoping that Walsh knows what he’s doing. I miss what happens to this city when the Knicks are good and go on deep playoff runs. It’s better than when it happens to any of the other NY sports teams, bar none.

It’s less about the fighting and more about the passion of being fans.

Sure, it’s easy to loose control when you feel your point isn’t coming across the way you meant, but its just that desire to get back to a winning program and the frustration of previous plans not working. This is New York. We expect to win and we are smarter than everyone else. It’s their problem if they don’t agree.

But the real point is we just want the Knicks to matter again. We are tired of waiting another year, and another year, and another year. We want to be on the winning again. we want to win on a trade, win on a free agent, win a game. Of course now we want to win this summer. We will see how the future plays out with these moves from yesterday and beyond. Winning cures all though. If we get our prize FA this summer, it will rejuvenate this city immensly. If we don’t, there will be other excellent players in blue and orange uniforms that will get us excited too. We will be a strong team regardless.

Its a good thing when a team near the bottom of the league can generate such passion from their fans. People still go to the games, and message boards go apeshit at the drop of a rumor. We would be in much bigger trouble if the opposite was true. You know… like New Jersey.

Regardless of if they sign HHSNBN. And even though everyone is going on and on about this ‘2 max’ thing, I think they may not end up going that route. If they can get one, or even Joe Johnson, and keep Lee, and have Rogriguez running the show, and sign a rebounding/shot blocking big man, I think they’ll be much improved.

Remember, when Duhon was shooting well, this team had some pretty good success. I think they got rid of Jeffries and Robinson, who were really helping only marginally, and gave themselves the chance to replace those guys with more versatile, better players.

So I don’t see this as a ‘2max or bust’ scenario at all. I see it as clearing out marginal players and putting themselves in a position to get better ones and keep the good ones they have.

No doubt there is risk that the traded/swapped picks and Jordan Hill may come back to haunt us. We will see what happens.

As for Isiah, I think he did have a plan. He inherited a roster full of overpaid, mediocre players, way over the cap. He tried to trade those guys for better players – often overpaying, but that was his plan – to rebuild without stripping down the team. He also lost Allan Houston to injury and retirement, which killed them. He took a lot of risks which had long term consequences that were very difficult to get out of. Walsh’s plan is a more typical rebuilding scenario and has been very conservative, actually. The Knicks have not made any large financial committment to mediocre players that they hope will blossom.

We’ll see. I know we are all passionate and want to win and have a contending team we can love – and I think we’re on our way, but we may not be. We’ll see – that’s why they play the games.

going for broke means you have to go broke at some point

here’s to shootin the moon, fellers.

theres some good videos of each new player we got in the trades…

tmac had a lot of burst and good plays against the clippers..in his 5th game back